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steve, i have gloves. >> steve: they would match your outfit. >> gretchen: i know. >> steve: you just want to share. it is the season for sharing. >> gretchen: i am a wimp with the gold. i don't like it even though i grew up in minnesota. >> steve: it is winter and it was not cold we would be in trouble. >> brian: we have bad news. >> gretchen: we have a fox news alert. while you were sleeping a magnitude earthquake hit japan and triggered a suence - tunce tsun ami. >> and day after two hunters found two bodies can doysens of people held a vigil to remember elizabeth collins and lyric cook . >> this time the law enforcement is confident based on the investigation that the bodies found yesterday are those of lyric cook and elizabeth collins. >> gretchen: a positive id will be made by the medical examiner. more importantly how did they die? they are accused of aiding terrorist and planning weapons of mass destruction and they will come face to face with a judge in florida. they were both from pakistan . they planned an attack with weapons of mass destruction. prince charles is speaking
steve, i have gloves. >> steve: they would match your outfit. >> gretchen: i know. >> steve: you just want to share. it is the season for sharing. >> gretchen: i am a wimp with the gold. i don't like it even though i grew up in minnesota. >> steve: it is winter and it was not cold we would be in trouble. >> brian: we have bad news. >> gretchen: we have a fox news alert. while you were sleeping a magnitude earthquake hit japan and triggered a suence -...
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steve, last word? >> okay. listen. unions are parasite who is eat their host alive. g.n. looked for a new host-- the taxpayer. in michigan, the parasites are looking fora i new host -- forcing michigan citizen who is do not want them there to be press into unions that they don't want to join. >> stop blaming the rank-and-file union member. they are not the ones causing this. it's the leadership -- >> yes, they are! >> after steven had his hans -- >> they pulled down a tent! it's not me! it's hundreds of people who were in a tent! come on, man! let's be honest! >> there were flame throwers and cancer patients everywhere. a little more dramatic. >> sean: thanks for being with us. the violence demonstrated by the union protesters is undeniable, the proof is in the footage. why did the mainstream media show none of this? we will look at the phony narrative. plus, tonight, we will check in with michelle malkin and much, much more as "hannity" (announcer) when subaru owners look in the mirror, they see more than themselves. so we celebrate our year-end with the "share the love"
steve, last word? >> okay. listen. unions are parasite who is eat their host alive. g.n. looked for a new host-- the taxpayer. in michigan, the parasites are looking fora i new host -- forcing michigan citizen who is do not want them there to be press into unions that they don't want to join. >> stop blaming the rank-and-file union member. they are not the ones causing this. it's the leadership -- >> yes, they are! >> after steven had his hans -- >> they pulled...
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steve hayes for "weekly standard." kirsten powers for daily beast. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? >> look, i love when the president says we need conceptual break through. meaning the republicans have to accept a hike in rates. what he means is a political surrender. because there is no economic reason why you cannot raise the money he wants raised. by doing it through eliminating deductions, inclusions and credit. number one as we saw he, himself, said so. a year-and-a-half ago. secondly, the same debt reduction commission he appointed and then ignored. spoke about raising much more through eliminating deductions and loopholes. and credits. broadening the base. at the same time, lowering the rates. that is the economic ideal. everybody understands it's what happened in '86 in the tax reform. it's what was recommended in the debt reduction commission. in their three scenarios in one of them, they eliminate so many deductions that they would lower upper rates to 23% and still come out revenue neutral. so, of course, it can be done
steve hayes for "weekly standard." kirsten powers for daily beast. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? >> look, i love when the president says we need conceptual break through. meaning the republicans have to accept a hike in rates. what he means is a political surrender. because there is no economic reason why you cannot raise the money he wants raised. by doing it through eliminating deductions, inclusions and credit. number one as we saw he, himself, said so....
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steve? >> steve: thanks. it is one of america's most dangerous cities, but now camden, new jersey, is laying off their entire police force. officials say massive union contracts have are to blame because they are filled with bloated benefits that the city simply cannot afford anymore. >> eric: joining us is scott thompson, the chief of camden city police department and a former nypd officer and the founder of an organization helping camden rebuild its police force union free. let's start with you. so how does this work? if the police department is quote unquote, laid off, what keeps camden safe going forward? >> actually, the layoffs will not occur until such time as the new force stands up and has sufficient staffing to be able to take over the police functions. >> steve: when is that supposed to be? >> we're looking at the spring. the new police department by the end of spring. >> steve: okay. chief. eric and i both live in new jersey. we know camden has a real crime problem. we can put autopsy graphic that
steve? >> steve: thanks. it is one of america's most dangerous cities, but now camden, new jersey, is laying off their entire police force. officials say massive union contracts have are to blame because they are filled with bloated benefits that the city simply cannot afford anymore. >> eric: joining us is scott thompson, the chief of camden city police department and a former nypd officer and the founder of an organization helping camden rebuild its police force union free. let's...
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not clear if the opposition will vote no or abstain from the process entirely. >> steve harrigan in a volatile situation in egypt for us. thank you. >>> weather update from maria molina. will we be seeing falling companies? >> we kickoff the workweek monday and tuesday with record high temperatures. take a look at some of these temperatures. it is december and a lcross portions of the mid atlanticdeg degrees was the record high temperature. changes are moving on in to portions of the great lakes and midwest and even into the northeast. high temperatures today low 40s in chicago. 38 degrees will be the high temperature in minneapolis. in cleveland 32 degrees for the temperature this afternoon. cooler air moving on in. the reason for that is the cold front for shower across new york city. you will need the umbrellas here and there through out the day as we see the showers pushing through behind this system. drier air but much colder. you will feel it tomorrow as we head out the door. out west a lot of stormy weather. good news is we are seeing this winding down across portions of the mi
not clear if the opposition will vote no or abstain from the process entirely. >> steve harrigan in a volatile situation in egypt for us. thank you. >>> weather update from maria molina. will we be seeing falling companies? >> we kickoff the workweek monday and tuesday with record high temperatures. take a look at some of these temperatures. it is december and a lcross portions of the mid atlanticdeg degrees was the record high temperature. changes are moving on in to...
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. >> steve: yeah. we're going to be winners because we hope you will join us tomorrow as is always the case on friday, geraldo rivera is going to be joining us live. and we're going to show you how it take great holiday pictures. you know the photographs? you've got digital cameras. how often do you cut people's heads off? >> brian: florida georgia line coming up in the after the show show. they're awesome and got another great song waiting for you. >> gretchen: join me on studio b today, 3:00 p.m. eastern. here we ép, america. foxç news alert. yo. knewç worries government spending issspeeding out of control againsas the fed chair ben b%jbpgke says he will notmy let up on stimulus÷ú spending until unemploymentç gets a whole letç lower. we're a longay from that. heresin "america's úççç >> 85.ç that will continueb printing a lot of money. for four years, president obama has been spending a lot of money. we've still got an economy growing at best, 2 1/2% in the third quarter. it may be
. >> steve: yeah. we're going to be winners because we hope you will join us tomorrow as is always the case on friday, geraldo rivera is going to be joining us live. and we're going to show you how it take great holiday pictures. you know the photographs? you've got digital cameras. how often do you cut people's heads off? >> brian: florida georgia line coming up in the after the show show. they're awesome and got another great song waiting for you. >> gretchen: join me on...
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steve, and brandon darby was an occupy protest who was in the group and then became an informant for the fbi. >> brandon, you were inside the movement and one of the thing i'm afraid of is you have the extreme left that wants to fundamentally transform and change america in ways that i don't think the average american would really comprehend. you were there. you were inside. how widespread is the thinking on this? >> sean, you have to understand that this video is really a serious of videos. a serious of videos where this same sentiment has been expressed t happened in the 2008 republican national convention. what i learned working undercover with the fbi was that these groups oftentimes are supported by the moderate left of center groups. and they are oftentimes protected by them in the media after they get caught by law enforcement. >> that's a fascinating thing, steve, because remember we had the guy deaf -- deficating on the police car and a rape tent set up for women because of the rapes taking place, and it was a really radical movement. we saw violence in cities across america
steve, and brandon darby was an occupy protest who was in the group and then became an informant for the fbi. >> brandon, you were inside the movement and one of the thing i'm afraid of is you have the extreme left that wants to fundamentally transform and change america in ways that i don't think the average american would really comprehend. you were there. you were inside. how widespread is the thinking on this? >> sean, you have to understand that this video is really a serious...
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>> steve: right. there was a misconception because there was a ballot initiative on the november ballot. it was voted down and then the republican base, house and senate, voted essentially in a one week push toward this particular aspect of it where you do not have to belong to a union. >> i think it's very remarkable, politically risky, yes, but without risk, you get no possible reward. >> steve: you want to say something amazing. steven crowder was on our program earlier talk being how yesterday some guy from a union socked him. >> i have never seen an angry mob filled with vitriolic hatred and i want to be clear. i did go in and provoke these people. i tried to provoke rational thought. i tried to provoke civil debate. i tried to then request they stop destroying private property and tearing down and trampling a tents with women and old people in it. then afterwards, a group of us did try and peel them off the tent as they were collapsing it upon women's heads beneath them, which of course, makes m
>> steve: right. there was a misconception because there was a ballot initiative on the november ballot. it was voted down and then the republican base, house and senate, voted essentially in a one week push toward this particular aspect of it where you do not have to belong to a union. >> i think it's very remarkable, politically risky, yes, but without risk, you get no possible reward. >> steve: you want to say something amazing. steven crowder was on our program earlier...
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we saw the live scenes with steve harrigan. since mohamed morsi, the president there assumed near absolute powers through a constitutional move. he and the muslim brotherhood have been doing things that have a lot of people concerned in terms of ramming through a very controversial new constitution that the people have been very unhappy about. what's going on there. come back home now for a moment and take a look at the latest numbers we have got on the u.s. economy. the weekly unemployment numbers came in as they do every thursday. the labor department reported 370,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment claims. either way, either way, folks, your taxes will go up despite the haggling going on on capitol hill. you will be paying more to the u.s. government. stuart varney joins me now. so, stuart, that's the bottom line. this is what people i think across the country are starting to realize no matter what they negotiate, 2013 will be different for most of us. >> this is the untold tax story. everybody has been concentra
we saw the live scenes with steve harrigan. since mohamed morsi, the president there assumed near absolute powers through a constitutional move. he and the muslim brotherhood have been doing things that have a lot of people concerned in terms of ramming through a very controversial new constitution that the people have been very unhappy about. what's going on there. come back home now for a moment and take a look at the latest numbers we have got on the u.s. economy. the weekly unemployment...
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>> steve: wait a minute. >> watch out, baby. >> steve: wait, i'm the hoop? this is not going to end well. >> gretchen: oh, my gosh. there goes our window. >> steve: you missed by that much. >> brian: i can't believe it. >> gretchen: fry again, brian. >> steve: so what time are you going shopping if people want to see you at toys r us? >> i'm going will now. if you can't show up, i urge to you donate. again, 'cause remember, it will be millions of children this year will wake up without toys. we want everybody to get toys. >> brian: more fox friends friends in two minutes. >> more "fox & friends" in two minutes. >> brian: he knows um... uh... . . umm... uh... oh ! the windows phone 8x by htc on verizon. it features easy to navigate live tiles that are simple to customize. just pin what matters most right to your homescreen. exclusively with data sense-- a feature that makes the most of you plan. only on verizon.
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>> steve: yeah. meanwhile, we got other stories making headlines on this thursday morning. while you were sleeping, antivirus software founder john mcafee arrived back in the united states to face the music. >> this morning i was in jail. today here i am. i'm not worried at all. if i'm in front of a court, there is nothing in the world they will do to send me back. they have no evidence. >> steve: he arrived in miami last night after trying to seek asylum in guatemala. he's wanted in belize, a country, for questioning about the murder of his neighbor. >> gretchen: he's been serving up lunch for five years, but it only took minutes for union workers in lansing, michigan, to completely destroy his famous hot dog cart. clinton's cart was inside the americans for prosperity tent and that is the same one that workers violently tore down on the capitol lawn as they protested the right to work law. there is good news here. people are now pitching in to help him out. so far they've raised $14,000 to get his
>> steve: yeah. meanwhile, we got other stories making headlines on this thursday morning. while you were sleeping, antivirus software founder john mcafee arrived back in the united states to face the music. >> this morning i was in jail. today here i am. i'm not worried at all. if i'm in front of a court, there is nothing in the world they will do to send me back. they have no evidence. >> steve: he arrived in miami last night after trying to seek asylum in guatemala. he's...
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. >> eric: thank you, steve. get out of here. get the studio back. >> fine. >> throw another log on. ♪ ♪ >> andrea: was up with of the wise men dr. manny with the beard? looks just like him! >> you are okay with the baby? you said you played baby jesus in the manger. >> bob: yeah. >> eric: broke the manger. >> greg: can i point something out, i was on the first fox and friends christmas special and they edited me out. because i was horrible. i will never do holiday specials because i hate them. anyway -- >> dana: you were good at the one we tried to do the other day. >> greg: thank you. this is my bus. my bus. which means the bus tour is back on december 15. through december 17. saturday and monday i'll be in texas, oklahoma, louisiana. if you want to find out more about it go to ggri ggetfeld.co. i'll be at the bookstores signing books. >> eric: "new york times" best seller list, people. don't forget. >> dana: big news today. jim demint of south carolina made a big announcement. he recently won in 2011. and he will be leavin
. >> eric: thank you, steve. get out of here. get the studio back. >> fine. >> throw another log on. ♪ ♪ >> andrea: was up with of the wise men dr. manny with the beard? looks just like him! >> you are okay with the baby? you said you played baby jesus in the manger. >> bob: yeah. >> eric: broke the manger. >> greg: can i point something out, i was on the first fox and friends christmas special and they edited me out. because i was horrible. i...
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matt mccall, steve moore. have a question you want answered, hemmer@foxnews.com or twitter, @billhemmer. fire away with a tweet because you asked, bya. martha. martha: there is tense stand with north korea. u.s. forces sending warships to the region as pongyang getting ready to flex its muscle. we have seen it before. is it different this time? we're live with the details. bill: live in cairo, protesters massing at the presidential palace. are they in favor of president or are about these protests to get ugly yet again? we're live in central cairo. martha: today of course is december the 7th. we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice on that day 71 years ago at pearl harbor. we remember that day which indeed has lived in infamy. >> no matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the american people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. [cheers and applause] [ roasting firewood ] ♪ many hot dogs are within you. try pepto-bismol to-go, it's the power of p
matt mccall, steve moore. have a question you want answered, hemmer@foxnews.com or twitter, @billhemmer. fire away with a tweet because you asked, bya. martha. martha: there is tense stand with north korea. u.s. forces sending warships to the region as pongyang getting ready to flex its muscle. we have seen it before. is it different this time? we're live with the details. bill: live in cairo, protesters massing at the presidential palace. are they in favor of president or are about these...
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steve harrigan good to see you. thank you. most americans say they would support hillary clinton for president in 2016. that's according to a new poll. and some of her potential republic rivals are also looking ahead at the next white house showdown. the poll from the abc and "the washington post" shows 57% of americans would back secretary clinton, 37% say they would oppose her. of course for now she says she has no plans to run again. a' couple of the top republic contenders are already talking about 2016. campaign carl cammeron live for us in our d.c. newsroom. they even showed up at the same event. >> they're actually about 16 republicans. maybe just at least that number who are actually looking for a white house run. a couple have already hired advisors and actually specialize in presidential politics. paul ryan has a lot of juice as the 2012 presidential. and marco rubio gave more than 70 speeches for romney over the last campaign year. last year both openly joked together about hitting the trail early in 2016, livin'. >
steve harrigan good to see you. thank you. most americans say they would support hillary clinton for president in 2016. that's according to a new poll. and some of her potential republic rivals are also looking ahead at the next white house showdown. the poll from the abc and "the washington post" shows 57% of americans would back secretary clinton, 37% say they would oppose her. of course for now she says she has no plans to run again. a' couple of the top republic contenders are...
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air now being called the innovator of the year and compared to steve jobs for your innovation. tell me how square is changing the face of american business? >> we start with a simple idea which was, you know, my parents were entrepreneurs. they started up local businesses and my father started a pizza restaurants when he was a kid and my mother the coffee store and they face the challenges just starting up. and also accepting patients extremely challenges, so we made it easy for any small business or neighborhood place it instantly accept credit cards by giving them a free credit card reader and accept credit cards for 2.75% and we signed up over 3 million merchants. >> i have to say when i went to, i drive up past the farmers market and there were people there selling the local farm stuff, fruits and vegetables and organic beef and crafts and those things of things. almost all of them were using square to accept credit card payments and i asked them separately on a sunday. said this is changed the way my family is able to put food on the table and that's got to be incredible f
air now being called the innovator of the year and compared to steve jobs for your innovation. tell me how square is changing the face of american business? >> we start with a simple idea which was, you know, my parents were entrepreneurs. they started up local businesses and my father started a pizza restaurants when he was a kid and my mother the coffee store and they face the challenges just starting up. and also accepting patients extremely challenges, so we made it easy for any small...
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jenna: steve, thank you. gregg: a shocking real-life health crisis involving a former child star, why frankie m u.n. iz was rushed to the hospital. we are live at the breaking news desk. the new nears about chemical weapons in the civil war rocking syria, why the u.s. and the international community should be concerned. we'll go in-depth with ambassador bolton. jenna: right now we are learning about a serious health problem for a former child star, rick folbaum is live at the breaking news news desk with more. >> reporter: you don't usually hear about healthy 20 somethings having strokes. that's what doctors say happened to frankly m u.n. is. he was riding his motorcycle in phoenix when he lost vision in one eye. friends, including his fiancee got worried when he was acting very strangely. turns out he was having a mini stroke. here he is on "good morning america." >> something wasn't right. i knew i did not feel right. coy -pbt say words. couldn't say words. i thought i was saying them. my fiancee was lookin
jenna: steve, thank you. gregg: a shocking real-life health crisis involving a former child star, why frankie m u.n. iz was rushed to the hospital. we are live at the breaking news desk. the new nears about chemical weapons in the civil war rocking syria, why the u.s. and the international community should be concerned. we'll go in-depth with ambassador bolton. jenna: right now we are learning about a serious health problem for a former child star, rick folbaum is live at the breaking news news...
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megyn: steve harrigan, thank you. images of the man's final moments alive sparked a nationwide debate on morals and ethics. as we learned more than a dozen people witnessed the altercation between the two men and that no one stepped in to help. when one of the men was pushed by the other on the subway tracks and was killed. why? dr. keith ablow is here. one of the largest teachers unions come under fire. some call this vicious and vile class warfare. you can see what is happening in this clip. that debate is also next. >> the people of this land called his paying taxes. everyone pays what they could afford. the people in the middle in the middle amount of the rich people 1%. over time rich people decided they weren't rich enough, so they came up with ways to get richer. the first way was to do tax cuts. fewer services for everyone and they said why should i care about others i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at
megyn: steve harrigan, thank you. images of the man's final moments alive sparked a nationwide debate on morals and ethics. as we learned more than a dozen people witnessed the altercation between the two men and that no one stepped in to help. when one of the men was pushed by the other on the subway tracks and was killed. why? dr. keith ablow is here. one of the largest teachers unions come under fire. some call this vicious and vile class warfare. you can see what is happening in this clip....
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so how effective today, steve? >> i think what it is, you're absolutely correct, they have not finished demonstrating a full capability to deliver this lethal capability at great distance. but unfortunately for us, by the time they have demonstrated that capability to a degree it is too late to negotiate with our allies or others a way to block them. what we really need now to insure the united states and others don't return to failed negotiating strategies of the past. recognize we have a real grave concern and we need a different approach. bill: what north korea wants to face-to-face, one-on-one. they have always sought that. they see themselves as being equal to the united states of america. and if you give them that, you give them a huge boost. we'll see how japan, china, russia, south korea reacts now. stephen yates, thank you. >> thank you. bill: to viewers at home, hemmer@foxnews.com is the e-mail. on twitter shoot a tweet to @billhemmer, because you asked, bya. we'll see where this goes next. martha: they s
so how effective today, steve? >> i think what it is, you're absolutely correct, they have not finished demonstrating a full capability to deliver this lethal capability at great distance. but unfortunately for us, by the time they have demonstrated that capability to a degree it is too late to negotiate with our allies or others a way to block them. what we really need now to insure the united states and others don't return to failed negotiating strategies of the past. recognize we have...
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. >> that is steve mclane. he feels strong about this. he's an every day sit even seven twraoeug to pul trying to pull over a detroit police officer who is not wearing his seatbelt. he snapped when the officer laughed off his request, and the officer sped away. he wants the officers to follow the same rules. he could face three months in jail for reckless driving. the citizen cop has pleaded not guilty to the charge and he has no regrets about this incident. he is due back in court next week. there are new developments in a legal challenge for george zimmerman as he takes on nbc universal. zimmerman is charged in the killing of the teenager trayvon martin earlier this year. now he's suing the tv met work for airing an edited version of a 911 call from that night, an edit that zimmerman's attorney claims deceptively made zimmerman appear to be a quote, racist predatory villain. a lot of people saw this suit coming, trace. >> reporter: when this first broke and we got a copy of the call that george zimmerman made to police dispatch it was f
. >> that is steve mclane. he feels strong about this. he's an every day sit even seven twraoeug to pul trying to pull over a detroit police officer who is not wearing his seatbelt. he snapped when the officer laughed off his request, and the officer sped away. he wants the officers to follow the same rules. he could face three months in jail for reckless driving. the citizen cop has pleaded not guilty to the charge and he has no regrets about this incident. he is due back in court next...
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. >> eric: the reality is, we have a spending problem, steve. how much money we're actually taxing, tax revenues are going up. >> they have to. >> eric: it's a spending issue. if we're putting a trillion dollars into the deficit you can't fix that with taxes. >> no, you sure can't. eric, when i first came to washington, which was about 25 years ago, we barely had a trillion dollar budget and here we are, 25 years later and we're closing in on a 4 trillion dollar budget and that under democrats and republicans as well and there haven't been serious cuts in spending in this town in at least 10 or 15 years and i'm kind of frustrated that neither party is really serious about getting these spending programs under control. i mean, we have been-- you look at entitlement programs and president obama and a lot of democrats say we can't cut medicare, social security, medicaid. and that's half the budget there. of course, we're spending 600, 700 billion dollars a year just to pay the interest on the debt. just on the interest. so you don't get any return
. >> eric: the reality is, we have a spending problem, steve. how much money we're actually taxing, tax revenues are going up. >> they have to. >> eric: it's a spending issue. if we're putting a trillion dollars into the deficit you can't fix that with taxes. >> no, you sure can't. eric, when i first came to washington, which was about 25 years ago, we barely had a trillion dollar budget and here we are, 25 years later and we're closing in on a 4 trillion dollar budget...